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...ce,” said Mr. Fogg, taking a roll of bank- 68 Around the World in 80 Days bills from the carpet-bag, which Passepartout had by him, and placing them ... ...he creeks, with their frothy, foam- ing streams. Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes, massing to- gether in the distance, seemed like a moveable dam. ... ...travelling. About twelve o’clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the track. The loco- motive, slackening its speed, tried... ...ained in his seat, and waited philosophi- cally until it should please the buffaloes to get out of the way. Passepartout was furious at the delay they... ...to overcome the obstacle, and he was wise. He would have crushed the first buffaloes, no doubt, with the cow-catcher; but the locomotive, however powe... ...ost time by greater speed when the obstacle was removed. The procession of buffaloes lasted three full hours, and it was night before the track was cl... ...they reached England, even if Mr. Fogg did not throw some handfuls of bank-bills into the sea, more than seven thousand pounds would have been spent! ... ... sixty thousand,” replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank-bills. This had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy. An American can scarc...

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... from the place where the sun is hid at night, over great plains where the buffaloes live, until we reached the big river. There we fought the Alligew... ...s drove him from the graves of his fathers, as they would chase the hunted buffalo. He ran down the shores of the lakes, and followed their outlet to ... ... ou may hear them groan, when the south wind blows, louder than the lowing buffaloes, along the shores of the great salt lake, where the big canoes co... ...rpent, into the camps of his nation.” “The singing-birds have opened their bills,” returned Uncas, in the softest notes of his own musical voice; “and...

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...ot large enough for his expenditure—why, he got into debt, and settled his bills that way. He was as much at home in the Fleet as in Pall Mall, and qu... ...h you were obliging enough to negotiate for me. Have I, or have I not, two bills out to that amount?” “W ell, my good fellow, you certainly have; and ... ... “What then? Why, I bet you five pounds to one, that in three months those bills are paid.” “Done! five pounds to one. I take it.” This sudden closing... ...ths, and so he said, “Done!” too, and went on: “What would you say if your bills were paid?” “Not mine; Pike’s.” “Well, if Pike’s were paid; and the M... ...i, her instructor. We know why he didn’t pay. It was his nature not to pay bills, except on extreme compul- sion; but why did not Baroski employ that ... ... Slang’s theatre by Snooks, the rhinoc- eros-tamer, with his breed of wild buffaloes. Their success was immense. Slang gave a supper, at which all the...

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..., and called to his Arabs. They had kindled a fire to roast the flesh of a buffalo, slaugh- tered by them from among a herd, and were laughing and sin... ...fire. So by the direction of their Chief the Arabs brought slices of sweet buffalo-flesh to Bhanavar, with cakes of grain: and Bhanavar ate alone, and... ...en he was on the topmost step, lo! one with a man’s body and the head of a buffalo, that pros- trated himself, and prayed the youth obsequiously to en... ...s of each there was another pouring of the liquid lights. Then he with the buffalo’s head bade Shibli Bagarag help himself from the falls; but Shibli ... ...lo! those different birds flew down with golden baskets hanging from their bills, and in the baskets fruits and viands and sweetmeats, and cool drinks... ...small bright birds, bee-catchers, that entered the flame, bearing in their bills slips of a herb, and hovering about the heal of the red serpent, dist... ...i Bagarag, ‘Now is he the red-maned lion, the bristling boar, the uncombed buffalo, the plumaged cock, but soon will he be like nothing else save the ...

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...listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and pa... ...or a train with five elegant-dressed fellows, and a man was pasting up red bills with lovely pictures of washing-machines on them. and the jeweler was... ...t to do all the trusting. Be damn sight more wonderful ‘f they’d pay their bills,” grumbled Kennicott and, to Carol, he whispered something which soun... ...ed to reduce the frequency of begging by open- ing accounts and having the bills sent to him. She had found that staple groceries, sugar, flour, could... ...ed to, but since you bring it up yourself, I don’t mind saying the grocery bills are about twice what they ought to be.” “Yes, they probably are. I’m ... ...r them was a blue woolen cover, prickly to her wrists, and outside of it a buffalo robe, humble and moth-eaten now, used ever since the bison herds ha... ...y crystallized into large damp 200 Main Street flakes. The horses and the buffalo robe were covered with snow; her face was wet; the thin butt of the... ... ground she smiled at him, her face little and childish and pink above the buffalo robe over her shoulders. In a swirl of flakes which scratched at th... ...s as he fumbled at her laces. He rubbed her feet, and covered her with the buffalo robe and horse-blankets from the pile on the feed-box. She was drow...

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... Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the socialists! And there’s an elevat... ...s. He felt honored by contact with greatness as Hanson yawned, stuffed the bills, uncounted, into his radiant vest, and swaggered away. He had a numbe... ...or Seattle or Duluth is the twin-brother of every like fellow booster from Buffalo or Akron, Fort Worth or Oskaloosa! 162 Babbitt “‘But it’s here in ... ...use! Fixes the furnace when the furnace- man doesn’t show up, and pays the bills, but dull, awful dull! Well, you may not believe it, but there’s some...

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...latter was intended to convey the idea of heat in that cold climate. Large buffalo-skins trimmed around the edges with red cloth cut into festoons, co... ...The usual forms were observed, when the foreman handed up to the bench two bills, on both of which the Judge observed, at the first glance of his eye,... ...oung tall like a pine; straight like the bullet of Hawk-eye, strong as all buffalo; spry as the cat of the mountain. He was strong, and a warrior like...

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...Zam Zammah, flourishing his bare heels. ‘He is a foreigner, and thou art a buffalo.’ The man turned helplessly and drifted towards the boys. He was ol... ...ch through the boxes. This was no com mon thief that turned over letters, bills, and saddles–no mere burglar who ran a little knife sideways into the... ... thy cattle.’ ‘Nay, but she is very sick,’ a woman struck in. ‘My man is a buffalo, or he would have chosen his words better. T ell me if she recover?... ...ome, but that is not true. Except when we are crossed, we are like our own buffaloes.’ ‘So be it,’ said Kim. ‘A good stick is a good reason.’ The lama... ...e a priest, then? It is time he took more of my quinine.’ ‘We Jats are all buffaloes,’ said the Kamboh, softening anew. Kim rubbed a finger tip of bit... ...ok down his long black hair. ‘That is my food–priest,’ the jat growled. ‘A buffalo in the temple! Hast thou dared to look even thus far?’ said Kim. ...

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...tell him the story of the Rescue of Pluffles. CUPID’S ARROWS PIT where the buffalo cooled his hide, By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; L... ... a month, I believe that you can occasionally contrive to pay your shoeing-bills. Did you ever know Shackles—b. w. g., 15.13.8—coarse, loose, mule-lik... ...d window into the narrow dark Gully where the sun never came and where the buffaloes wallowed in the blue slime. She was a widow, about fifteen years ... ...to Amir Nath’s Gully on an aimless wandering; and, after he had passed the buffaloes, stumbled over a big heap of cattle food. Then he saw that the Gu...

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...nt of Monte Cristo 238 ing your strict punctuality, have collected all the bills bearing your signature, and charged me as they became due to present ... ...hich was covered with perspiration. “So then, sir,” said Morrel, “you hold bills of mine?” “Yes, and for a considerable sum.” “What is the amount?” as... ...s own signature. “Is this all?” “No, I have for the end of the month these bills which have been assigned to us by the house of Pascal, and the house ... ... see,” continued the stranger, “I am one of your largest creditors.” “Your bills, at least, are the first that will fall due.” “Do you wish for time t... ...verything on myself. To-day is the 5th of June.” “Yes.” “Well, renew these bills up to the 5th of September; and on the 5th of September at eleven o’c... ...sed in the most fantastic costumes — gigantic cabbages walk gravely about, buffaloes’ heads below from men’s shoulders, dogs walk on their hind legs; ...

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...n, some little advantages of one sort or another; among them the monopoly of buffalo hides. He spent several years and about all of his money, in maki... ...had a fair right to think the river’s roaring demon was come. “At length the buffalo began to appear, grazing in herds on the great prairies which the... ... if he didn’t pucker up his mouth and go to whistling! Yes, sir; whistling ‘Buffalo gals, can’t you come out tonight, can’t you come out to night, ca... ...ay began to draw out twenty five dollars a month, and calculate their burial bills. By and by, all the useless, helpless pilots, and a dozen first cl... ...e clerk’s office and received his two hundred and fifty dollars in crisp new bills, Stephen was there! His silvery tongue began to wag, and in a very ... ...d offended; for I had had no glimpse of my hero, and his name was not in the bills. I met him on the street the next morning, and before I could speak...

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... within which this singular scene had passed, and beheld a strong guard of bills and bows drawn out to form a circle around it, and keep at distance a... ...mpets sounded loud, shrill, and con- tinuously. The alarm-cry of “Bows and bills, bows and bills!” was heard from quarter to quarter, again and again ... ...er- ate one. Salisbury and his attendants were also now drawing near, with bills and partisans brandished, and bows already bended. At this moment Kin... ...elf, without speech of any 244 The Talisman kind, upon a couch of dressed buffalo’s hide, which was pointed out to him by his conductor, and hiding h...

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... the Zaara—and the leigh, or gigantic stag, from Britain. Thither came the buffalo and the bison, the white bull of Northumberland and Galloway, the u... ...er more nor less than a compendious legislator. Acts of attainder, divorce bills, &c., illustrate the case in England; they are cases of law, modified...

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...have seemed very formidable; but his head made amends—it was the head of a buffalo, or of a bison, and his vast jungle of mane was the mane of a lion.... ...total Rome of T rajan’s time, stretching so many miles beyond it, than the bills of mortality for what is tech- nically “London within the walls” can ...

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...y whole employ, besides what engraving I had to do, was to transcribe some bills and accounts, to write several books over fair, and trans- late comme... ...as by no means calculated to please me; such as having projects to digest, bills to write fair, re- ceipts to transcribe, herbs to pick, drugs to poun... ...greasy, his face like those formed in ginger- bread, he had the voice of a buffalo, the countenance of an owl, and the bristles of a boar in lieu of a...

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...’s no use despairin’, my wife must go charin’ An’ me commissairin’ the pay-bills to better, So if me you be’old In the wet and the cold, By the Grand ... ...ws, Where the dog-ape barks in the kloof — in the brake of the buffalo-wallows. Song of the Dead in the West — in the Barrens,...

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...ummed on the table with rather dirty fingers. Then he pulled out a roll of bills as if to count them. “How’ s your mama this afternoon?” a man said. “... ...s fist with a triumphant bang, wetted his finger, and went on counting the bills. “Oh, you’re a high-grade machine, with the writing in plain sight,” ... ...n dollars! Why , see here, I-” Harvey dived into his pocket for the wad of bills. All he brought up was a soggy packet of cigarettes. “Not lawful curr... ...” Harvey sat up, mopped his nose, and told the story of the missing wad of bills. “I’m not crazy ,” he wound up. “Only-your father has never seen more... ...o see it. The cook he don’t count.” “I might have thought about losing the bills that way ,” Harvey said, half to himself, “instead of calling every- ... ...ichigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany , and B. and A. the same Albany to Boston. Indispens- abl... ... Fe’ at Sixteenth Street next Tues- day p. m. on N. Y . Limited through to Buffalo and de- liver N. Y. C. for Albany.-Ever bin to N’ York, Miss Kinzey... ...any.-Ever bin to N’ York, Miss Kinzey? We’ll go some day .-Ready? Take car Buffalo to Albany on Limited Tuesday p. m. That’ s for Toucey .” “Haven’t b... ...railroads encourage the delusion. The Limited whirled the “Constance” into Buffalo and the arms of the New York Central and Hudson River (illustrious ...

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...rnoon. He thought of their new landlord, and of their old landlord, and of bills and claims. Life presented itself for the first time as a hopeless fi... ...ers in the hat. Sometimes even silver. It was all income; no outgoings, no bills. “I’m on, Bert,” he said. “Right 0!” said Bert, and, “Now we shan’t b... ...expelled all its in- habitants and made a desert of its environs as far as Buffalo. They had also, directly Great Britain and France declare war, wrec... ...ea the countryside was still standing, but almost all the people had fled. Buffalo was on fire to an enormous extent, and there were no signs of any e... ...hidden by great volumes of dark smoke that were rising in the direction of Buffalo. For a time they all were hidden, then two or three white and a num... ...ver and fell, spinning over and over itself and vanished into the smoke of Buffalo. Bert’s mouth opened and shut, and he clutched tighter on the rail ... ...reach in the further bridge and the water that boiled beneath it. T owards Buffalo there was still much smoke, and near the position of the Niagara ra...

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...kwoodsmen; farm-hunters and fame-hunters; heir- ess-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, hap- piness-hunters, truth-hunters, and still... ... morocco and work- manship, bound with silk of the same color, not to omit bills crisp with newness, fresh from the bank, no muckworms’ grime upon the... ...h newness, fresh from the bank, no muckworms’ grime upon them. Lucre those bills might be, but as yet hav- ing been kept unspotted from the world, not... ... from the world, not of the filthy sort. Placing now three of those virgin bills in the applicant’s hands, he hoped that the smallness of the contribu... ... ‘change on the Paris Bourse, Asmodeus should lounge in, distributing hand-bills, reveal- ing the true thoughts and designs of all the operators prese... ...orgotten his passage;” then, alter- ing in manner, and gravely holding the bills, continued: “Re- spected sir, never willingly do I handle money not w...

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...about the library, glancing at his letters—the usual meaningless notes and bills—and picking up the evening paper. As he un- folded it a headline caug... ...ere to try another appeal to Rose Melrose? Then he looked at the notes and bills on the table, and the horror of taking up again the lifeless routine ... ...nce he had seen Miss Gaynor off, an hour earlier, on her return journey to Buffalo, he had been wondering how he should put in the rest of the afterno...